A Get Brexit Done update: Detailed checks on food entering the UK which were to have been introduced in July have been pushed back again – this time to 2023.
‘Let’s take back control of our borders.’ blah, blah, blah – *whispers* unless it means allowing overseas fresh goods through while UK goods are still subject to stringent checks on entering the EU.
Minister for Brexit Opportunities @Jacob_Rees_Mogg announces Brexit checks on EU food imports have been scrapped.
Full statement: pic.twitter.com/FLcmIGxPUP
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) April 28, 2022
Jacob Rees-Mogg may not quite have said that but the Minister for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency did make a statement, and it had Remain campaigners’ heads spinning.
Checks on food imports from the EU 'would have been an act of self-harm', says @Jacob_Rees_Mogg after the UK delayed plans to impose the checks until the end of 2023 pic.twitter.com/6Bq41fNyTE
— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) April 28, 2022
Come now, Jacob. Surely that’s just Project Fear.
These reactions expressed it best.
1.
Even a stopped clock etc. https://t.co/yn8GSCZqS3
— James Oh Brien (@mrjamesob) April 28, 2022
2.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is now patiently explaining to us why it's important to have free trade with the EU and no burdensome checks. Uh, wasn't that what we said?
— Sarah Hurst
(@Life_Disrupted) April 28, 2022
3.
The lack of self awareness is staggering.#JohnsonOut#VoteTheToryCriminalsOut https://t.co/Ovf4ICk0bw
— That Baratheon Girl
(@baratheongirl) April 28, 2022
4.
BREAKING: Rees-Mogg becomes a Remainer. https://t.co/olxfXJMKQC
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) April 28, 2022
5.
"Basically, Brexit was a f'kin AWFUL idea, but if I say it with enough authority and several plums in my mouth, maybe the oiks won't notice, yah?" https://t.co/taUu3EPYpo
— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) April 28, 2022
6.
Boris Johnson, campaigning: “WE’RE GOING TO TAKE CONTROL OF OUR BORDERS!!!
Boris Johnson, governing: “Dear EU, send what you like to Britain, we won’t be checking it”https://t.co/baBDMurZgN— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) April 28, 2022
7.
Apparently taking back control means not implementing the deal they negotiated.
— Siobhan Benita
(@SiobhanBenita) April 28, 2022
8.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that the reason the UK government has decided to delay the next round of Brexit red tape is because it would be “an act of self-harm”. Write your own punchline, folks.
— Nick Tyrone (@NicholasTyrone) April 28, 2022
9.
Jacob Rees-Mogg admits the government's brexit deal is total crap.
JRM says implementing deal "would have been an act of self harm"
I'm old enough to remember when Boris Johnson told us "the trade deal was the feast, full of fish"
— Haggis_UK
(@Haggis_UK) April 28, 2022
10.
Some of us used those very words at the time…. https://t.co/5HhvASLCt9
— Anna Turley
11.
Something surreal about the fact Jacob Rees-Mogg is now pushing one of the key lines from the Remain campaign.https://t.co/r2qBE0ivfp
— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) April 28, 2022
12.
So the only Brexit benefit he can find is not implementing Brexit. https://t.co/n6eJhu1GNf
— Brexit Bin
We’re grateful to James O’Brien for this three-word slogan.
Keeping Brexit Undone. https://t.co/ejEz93n2PY
— James Oh Brien (@mrjamesob) April 28, 2022
Could catch on.
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